To think this is so AGEING

[AddToBasket]

Being over-specific about how you want your hot drink. Don't do it! You can choose milk and/or sugar. That's it. Any further instruction makes you sound like you buy your shoes from an insert in the Telegraph weekend supplement.

'Just dunk the bag and take it out quickly could you?'/'Not too much milk, please'/'just the one sugar, but if you could make it a smallish spoon'/'I prefer a good slug of milk'.

Urgh. Verbal varicose veins.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

I am confused.

[DontKillMyVibe]

Nope, don't associate it with age at all

[PolovesTubbyCustard]

YABVVVVU

nothing wrong with being specific. I hate having to force down a wishy washy weak pint of coffee or bitter over stewed tea.

[Behooven]

Not ageing no.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

What's ageing about it?

[TheCatsMeow]

YABU. I can't stand coffee or tea but there's nothing wrong with knowing how you like it

[expatinscotland]

WTAF is this about? What is 'ageing' about how you take tea?

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

Eh?

[Sparklingbrook]

I think picky people come in all ages TBH.

People like you describe should just make it themselves.

[Pipestheghost]

Yabu, most people I know have a specific way they like their tea/coffee.

[Palomb]

What?

Mines a dash of red milk and one sweetner.

[RatherBeRiding]

Eh? Tea comes in all shapes and sizes and if I don't specify that I like it quite strong I might get some weak milky undrinkable slosh.

Really don't get the ageing thing at all.

[Sparklingbrook]

Here's the colour chart you could get people to choose.

[TheDowagerCuntess]

It sounds very annoying. But aging...?!

Clearly more to this than you're giving in the OP.

[Follyfoot]

What a lot of nonsense, YABU. How can the amount of milk/sugar you have in your tea be ageing?

Ageism is one the few 'isms' which seems to go unchallenged on Mumsnet. And as for the shoe insert comment

[ghostyslovesheep]

no idea why it's ageing?

[CMOTDibbler]

I don't think its ageing, just slightly annoying. I'll drink tea or coffee in just about any state, including russian style with the grounds if thats what the person making it offers.

I guess if you are paying for it, you can specify 'low fat coconut milk, guatamalen espresso, 1 pump of vanilla, 1 pump of caramel, extra hot' if you so please though. But not at the hospital tea bar or similar.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Ooh I like abut of Midnight Savannah

[IfNotNowThenWhenever]

Yeah fucking older people with their annoying ways. Bastards.
Ooh, sparkling I love the chart. I'm Midnight Savannha. Useful.

[Backingvocals]

I am specific about my tea. But then I am 107 so it's to be expected.

[Lurkedforever1]

I must have been a very aged preteen.

It's actually very ageing to get bothered by how anyone takes a drink, do you intend making it the subject of your weekly letter to the local rag?

[Sparklingbrook]

You can get the colour chart inside a mug too. Mine's a Brew Ha Ha.

[NinaSimoneful]

Yabvu
If you were talking about people making a laundry list of requests then you'd have a point but saying you like a 'good bit of milk' or 'a smallish spoon of sugar' is hardly issuing divaesque demands. If I were making tea for someone I'd prefer they gave me a clue as to how they like it, rather than me making a cup of tea with too little milk or too much sugar and the tea going to waste undrunk. When I could have tweaked it slightly and they'd have had a nice cup of tea and no waste.

[IfNotNowThenWhenever]

X post sandiego All the best people are Midnight Savannha doncha know.

[missymayhemsmum]

Hadn't thought about it but you're right. It's a slippery slope from there to 'no garlic thanks it repeats on me', taking the peel off cucumber, keeping a favourite set of driving shoes and filing your garden seed packets by month.

Or is knowing which friend/ colleague likes weak tea, who can only drink out of a white cup and remembering to use different teaspoons for tea and coffee just being caring?